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One passenger travelling to Queen Street Station today took to social media to express her frustration cliaming that a journey which would normally take her 20 minutes, took her an hour and 15 minutes.

Lauren (@LaurenGodz) tweeted: "Not happy with the scotrail strikes at all. Having to LEAVE MY HOUSE at 6:30am to get to work for 9 is atrocious."

The reduced services are causing problems for passengers planning to connect with other train and bus services.

Scotrail are telling customers they can get refunds for prepaid train tickets if their train is now cancelled or no longer fits their plans.

Katherine Searle planned to get a train from Dumfries to Carlisle to catch a train to London but tweetd Scotrail to say the Dumfries train was cancelled and the replacement bus would have arrived too late for her train connection.